Sooni Taraporevala, photographer, screenwriter, film-maker, is best known for writing the films Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, the Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, and directing the National Award-winning Little Zizou as well as for her book, PARSIS: A Photographic Journey. Her photographs have been exhibited around the world and are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The recipient of numerous national and international awards, she was awarded a Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She lives in Mumbai with her husband Dr Firdaus Bativala.
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